Dravidian numerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient India and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Dravidian-speaking regions in South Asia. Numbers in this system are represented by combinations of letters from the various Indian scripts. In modern usage it has been replaced by Hindu-Arabic numeral systems.[1]
Dravidiannumerals are a numeral system that originated in ancient India and remained the usual way of writing numbers throughout Dravidian-speaking regions...
The Dravidian languages (sometimes called Dravidic) are a family of languages spoken by 250 million people, mainly in southern India, north-east Sri Lanka...
Dravidian languages, Tamil numerals influenced and shaped the numerals of the others in the family. The following table compares the main Dravidian languages...
from the usual numerals, Tamil has numerals for 10, 100 and 1000. Symbols for day, month, year, debit, credit, as above, rupee, and numeral are present as...
criticised by other Dravidian linguists, such as Bhadriraju Krishnamurti. Nostratic associates Uralic, Indo-European, Altaic, Dravidian, Afroasiatic, and...
Malayalam (/ˌmæləˈjɑːləm/; മലയാളം, Malayāḷam, IPA: [mɐlɐjaːɭɐm] ) is a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian state of Kerala and the union territories...
Telugu (/ˈtɛlʊɡuː/; తెలుగు, Telugu pronunciation: [ˈt̪eluɡu]) is a Dravidian language native to the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana, where...
include kola for leaf in Sinhala and Vedda (although others suggest a Dravidian origin for this word.), dola for pig in Vedda and offering in Sinhala...
firstly the Egyptian numerals, then the Brahmi numerals, Greek numerals, Hebrew numerals, Roman numerals, and Chinese numerals. Very large numbers were...
numerals to be used for the official purposes of the Union are "the international form of Indian numerals", which are referred to as Arabic numerals in...
divided into various language families, of which the Indo-Aryan and the Dravidian are the most widely spoken. There are also many languages belonging to...
Zvelebil, and Asko Parpola have argued that the script had a relation to a Dravidian language. By 1977 at least 2,906 inscribed objects with legible inscriptions...
Tamil compound (uyirmei) letters. Apart from the usual numerals (from 0 to 9), Tamil also has numerals for 10, 100 and 1000. Symbols for fraction and other...
names of newly encountered plants and animals; in addition, the ancient Dravidian languages influenced Sanskrit's phonology and syntax. Sanskrit can also...
are treated as normal nouns). Polish also has a series of numerals called collective numerals (liczebniki zbiorowe), namely dwoje (for 2), troje (for 3)...
'ten sixties'), so that the Sumerian lexical numeral system is sexagesimal with 10 as a subbase. Numerals and composite numbers are as follows: The Sumerian...
graffiti. This cultural complex spread from southern India along with Dravidian clans such as the Velir, prior to the migration of Prakrit speakers. The...
Old Sundanese. They are now obsolete. Notes Mongolian numerals are derived from Tibetan numerals and used in conjunction with the Mongolian and Clear script...
are derived from the Arabic numerals, whereas the next nine (m–d) were the local Indic numerals. (See Hindu–Arabic numerals.) The remaining letters for...
is an abugida of the Brahmic family, used to write Kannada, one of the Dravidian languages of South India especially in the state of Karnataka. It is one...
to the ISO 15919 standard. Tulu (Tulu Bāse, Tulu: [t̪uɭu baːsɛ]) is a Dravidian language whose speakers are concentrated in Dakshina Kannada and in the...
the Brahmic family of scripts, is used to write the Telugu language, a Dravidian language spoken in the Indian states of Andhra Pradesh and Telangana as...
pioneered in Tamil Nadu based on the demands of the Dravidian movement. The leadership of the Dravidian movement had very capable authors and literati in...
ˈkæn-/; ಕನ್ನಡ, IPA: [ˈkɐnːɐɖa]), formerly also known as Canarese, is a Dravidian language spoken predominantly by the people of Karnataka in southwestern...
cooperation as practiced and understood by the Tamil population in a period of Dravidian–Aryan synthesis and as the Indian religions were evolving. There is no...
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